hallucinate
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But new research suggests there may be a more concerning issue emerging: humans can begin to "hallucinate with AI."
From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026
AI systems can "hallucinate", inventing plausible but incorrect answers.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
AI tools are known to hallucinate, or make up information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
Since AI tools are known to hallucinate, or make up information, workers should demonstrate that they check the information they’re given and don’t always rely on the same offerings.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 11, 2026
My fever gets worse, and during one terrible evening I start to hallucinate.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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If an agent hallucinates, Arcade can catch the error and correct it, allowing the workflow to continue, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
"This means that visual information about things happening in the outside world becomes less accessible to our consciousness. To fill this gap in the puzzle, our brain inserts fragments from memory -- it hallucinates."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2026
What good is AI that analyzes financial data if it hallucinates numbers?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025
The puppeteer even hallucinates seeing Eric standing next to him, wisecracking and poking holes in his ego - because "puppets say the things we can't".
From BBC ● May 26, 2024
As she puts tomatoes into boxes, she hallucinates that she is slicing open a juicy one and sprinkling it with salt.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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What about making real that hallucinated series with Cillian Murphy?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
"Many of these manipulated images have the hallmarks of imperfect AI-generation: odd angles, blurred details, and hallucinated features that don't align with reality," Africk told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026
It hallucinated that my actual finish was the same as the target finish time it originally predicted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
Earlier this year, Apple suspended its Apple Intelligence news summary tool in the UK after it hallucinated false headlines and presented them as real news.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2025
He trotted past where I stood beneath the tree, his bare feet slapping the walk in the silence, going for a few feet and then the high, hallucinated cry beginning again.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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When generative AI systems give incorrect answers, people often describe the problem as AI "hallucinating at us," meaning the technology produces false information that users may mistakenly believe.
From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026
Newer language models are known for being overly encouraging or sycophantic towards users, as well as for hallucinating - meaning they make things up.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
"This risk of a model making errors or hallucinating cannot be fully avoided in any technical way," said Munich Re's head of AI insurance, Michael von Gablenz.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
I have yet to see any implementation of A.I. that I could consider either general-purpose or foundational, and I think it’s absurd to look at the hallucinating chatbots and inaccurate A.I.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2025
Followed by dozens of masons and carpenters, as if she had contracted her husband’s hallucinating fever, Úrsula fixed the position of light and heat and distributed space without the least sense of its limitations.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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